Ergatta vs TickGuard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ergatta
Plan workouts, track performance, and view detailed historical data. Monitor your progress, rankings, and challenges, even without your rower. Sync data with Apple Health for a comprehensive view of your fitness.
- Workout history and breakdown
- Workout library browsing and filtering
- Detailed stats and personal records
- Community and group rankings
- Challenge progress tracking
- Apple Health integration
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Enhance your workout and race performance by planning ahead and staying on top of the results. Keep up with the Rankings and see where you stand, browse your workout libraries, see your history, highlights, and progress, even if your Ergatta rower is stored away. The Ergatta Companion App Includes: APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION Sync your Ergatta workouts to the Apple Health App, where they will appear as part of your daily activity. YOUR WORKOUT HISTORY • View all our your completed workouts • Get a granular breakdown of each workout • See your monthly distance, time, and calorie totals • Favorite workouts YOUR WORKOUT LIBRARY • Browse through the workout libraries and filter by time, distance, type, and more • See each workout’s details and your projected performance • Favorite workouts for later YOUR STATS • View your dashboard • Personal Records • Monthly, weekly, and daily breakdowns of your stats • Your personal records and highlights RANKINGS • Your full rankings report • Monthly breakdowns of the full community, your age group, gender, and weight group • Sort by distance rowed, best split, and average split CHALLENGES Check in on challenges and track your progress This app is frequently updated with new features and enhancements, just as the Ergatta Experience evolves. Have an input? Email support@ergatta.com and share with the team.
TickGuard
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TickGuard opens on your own region. It shows when ticks are active near you month by month, which species you are likely to meet, and which diseases matter where you live. Most of it works with no connection at all. YOUR TICK YEAR A twelve month strip marks the current month and shows how busy ticks usually are. Underneath sit the local notes: common species, the diseases worth knowing about, and the precautions that make a difference in your area. A German phone gets Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the FSME risk areas called out. A Japanese phone gets Japan and Korea. Twelve languages, each written for that region rather than translated from one country's advice. WHAT THE DISEASES LOOK LIKE Lyme borreliosis, tick-borne encephalitis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tick-borne relapsing fever. For each one: where it occurs, how long symptoms usually take to appear, what the early signs look like, what happens if it goes untreated, and the point at which you should stop reading and call a doctor. Written from ECDC, CDC, WHO and national health authority guidance. COMMUNITY MAP Look at where people have run into ticks lately. Reading the map asks nothing of you: no account, no permission, no report of your own. If you want to add one, it sends an area of roughly a square kilometre and the date, plus the species if you recognise it. Nothing else. No account, no device identifier, no photo, no free text, which also means a report cannot be traced back to you. AFTER A BITE Log it with a photo and where on the body it was, then work through the 30 day symptom watch. Reminders are scheduled on your own phone, never on a server. The removal guide covers the steps in order, including the folk remedies that make things worse. IDENTIFY A TICK Point the camera at one and a model I trained myself on 3,258 labelled photographs names the likely genus with a confidence score. It runs entirely on the phone. A Smart Invert view helps when a dark tick is sitting in dark fur. HEALTH AUTHORITY LINKS Straight to your own country's health service, matched to your region and language. PRIVACY Everything except the community map works with no connection. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking of any kind. Camera frames are processed in memory and thrown away. Your bite log stays on your phone. Location is only used if you choose to report a sighting, or if you switch the Guide tab's region to Automatic. NOT A MEDICAL DEVICE This is a reference tool, not a diagnostic one. Identification suggests a likely genus and can be wrong. If you suspect a tick bite, or symptoms appear, contact a healthcare professional. For pets, ask your vet. PRICING TickGuard Premium unlocks the whole app: the regional guide, the disease reference, the community map, the bite log and the identify camera. New subscribers get one week free. After the trial, TickGuard Premium Monthly is 1.99 USD a month, billed to your Apple Account and cancellable anytime in Apple Account Settings. If you would rather not subscribe, TickGuard Lifetime is a 19.99 USD one-time purchase for the same access, for good. Family Sharing is on for both, so one purchase covers your family group. Payment is charged at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tickguard.pawels-apps.workers.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TickGuard at weekly against Ergatta's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ergatta ships an update monthly, TickGuard weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ergatta | TickGuard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (80 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 58.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ergatta | Pawel Szydlowski |
Bugs and requests
Ergatta
Reported bugs
7 issues- Unable to sign up/sign in
- Login screen unresponsive
- App does nothing after entering credentials
- Workout dates sync incorrectly to Apple Health
- Sometimes won't connect
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- Does not set active calories in Fitness app
- Exercise minutes sync, but not calories in Move section
Requested features
10 requests- Export data for external analysis (e.g., VO2max)
- Watch complications for Apple Watch
- Shortcuts for Apple Watch Ultra action button
- Option to pay monthly or on-the-go
- Add challenges to the app
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- Fix active calorie sync to Apple Fitness
- Add Heart Rate data within the app
- Include Heart Rate history in Apple Fitness transfer
- Update workout history without killing the app
- Apple Watch integration for heart rate monitoring
TickGuard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ergatta
No in-app purchases
TickGuard
No in-app purchases








